Mathematicians Demand Proof OpenAI Didn't Use Their Work OpenAI's recent mathematical breakthroughs have sparked an uncomfortable question: were they built on other people's ideas? Mathematicians are now demanding proof that the company did not use their work, and at least one mathematician has accu...

Snap Codifies Existing In-App Behavior Snap's latest update does not introduce a new way of using the app. Instead, it formalizes what users are already doing. The company is taking familiar, informal interactions and writing them into the platform's official rules and features. This approach is les...

Android Foldables Did It First None of this is genuinely new. Android foldables have spent years normalising the hinge, the crease, and the inner display, and the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is less an invention than a refinement of ideas the category already proved out. The book-style form factor, the multitas...

What Muse Known About Me What surprised me most wasn't that Muse knew things about me — it was how specific those things were. The suggestions weren't generic. They mapped onto interests I'd never explicitly told the app about, but which were plainly visible across my Instagram account. Muse rattled...

The Main Reasons to Upgrade If you are still using an older phone, you have probably noticed that the experience has started to feel a little strained. Two improvements stand out above everything else, and they are the main reasons to consider an upgrade: longer battery life and a more capable chips...

UMG's New AI Music Platform Universal Music Group is preparing to launch its own artificial intelligence music platform, according to reports. The move marks a significant step by a major label into the rapidly evolving world of AI-generated music, rather than leaving the space to independent startu...

Electric Air Taxis Approved for Texas Test Flights Electric air taxis have been cleared to begin test flights in Texas, marking a significant step toward bringing advanced air mobility to the state. The approval allows companies to conduct flight testing of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVT...

Educators' Rapid Adoption of Tech-Backed Coding Curricula When technology-backed coding curricula arrived, educators embraced them with remarkable speed. The appeal was practical: platforms that could teach programming fundamentals at scale, track student progress, and reduce the burden on teachers ...

Slackbot Now Builds Tools From Descriptions Building a custom tool for your team used to mean filing a request, waiting on engineering, or wrestling with an internal app builder. Slackbot now removes most of that friction: you can describe the tool you want in plain language, and Slackbot will build...

Why Collective Confidence Beats Optimism Martin draws a sharp distinction between optimism and collective confidence. Optimism, he says, “is really just a forecast of the future.” Collective confidence is different because it’s grounded in evidence. It’s “a conclusion that a team draws” after lookin...

The $5.5 Trillion AI Skills Gap By some measures, companies are leaving $5.5 trillion in unrealized productivity on the table because of AI skills gaps. Yet AI strategy in most organizations follows a familiar script: boards and senior leaders sign enterprise license agreements with a tech titan, th...

When American tennis player Ben Shelton hit a 146 mph match-point ace at 3:33 a.m. to defeat defending champion Carlos Alcaraz at the 2026 US Open, he did not rely on a childhood spent in specialized tennis academies. His success came from years of throwing strikes in baseball and playing quarterbac...